May 27, 2021
We have done so many events these past few weeks, which has given us lots of time to connect with readers. In the span of just eight days, we did five events for book lovers and librarians. It was both exciting and exhilarating --- and yes, by the end I was a wee bit cross-eyed from the pace. I saw so much enthusiasm for books out now and those that are coming. We are sharing links to so much this month, which will give you an opportunity to have this same kind of experience...with just the exciting and exhilarating part!
RGG Speed Dating May 2021 Event
Bookaccino Live Book Group Event on June 24th
Editorial Content for Great Circle
Book
Teaser
An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost, GREAT CIRCLE spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London and modern-day Los Angeles.
Promo
An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost, GREAT CIRCLE spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London and modern-day Los Angeles.
About the Book
An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost, GREAT CIRCLE spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London and modern-day Los Angeles.
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --- after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes --- Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At 14 she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.
A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny and disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates --- and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times --- collide.
Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, GREAT CIRCLE is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
